Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
L-ANT/06 (ETRUSCAN AND ITALIC CIVILISATIONS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Curriculum
Archeologia classica
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
The advanced classes of Etruscan and Italian archaeology presuppose a basic knowledge of Etruscan civilization and history, which should have been already acquired through a preliminary course for beginners.
You need, moreover, a fairly good general knowledge of Greek art.
Learning outcomes
These classes aim at historically focusing Etruscan art and handicraft, by a choice of crucial times and problems.
They aim, moreover, at dealing with some special subjects on peoples and cultures of Italy before the Romans, in order to give methodological rules and stimulate free searching and studies.
Course contents
A) Etruscan art and handicraft: history of reception; a brief account from the Geometric to the Hellenistic age.
B) Political and cultural aspects of Greco-Etruscan relations between 6th and 4th cent.s BC.
Teaching methods
Lectures, with commentaries to PowerPoint presentations.
This series of lectures should be possibly complemented by guided tours of Etruscan places and collections.
Reccomended or required readings
A handbook to be chosen among the followings:
R. Bianchi Bandinelli & M. Torelli, L'arte dell'antichità classica, II (Etruria-Roma), Torino, UTET, repr. 2008 (only the chapters and files concerning Etruscan art)
O.J. Brendel, Etruscan Art, ed. F.R. Serra Ridgway, New Haven, Yale University Press, rev. 1995
J. MacIntosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World, London-New York, Routledge, 2013 ( only parts VI-VIII)
F.-H. Pairault Massa, Iconologia e politica nell'Italia antica. Roma, Lazio, Etruria dal VII al I secolo a.C., Milano, Longanesi, 1992
M. Torelli, L'arte degli Etruschi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, repr. 2008.
The students, who can not regularly attend the classes, must read two handbooks (instead of only one).
Assessment methods
Oral test, based on the ability to analyze relevant pictures, selected from the above-quoted handbooks.
Students coming from other European countries are allowed to answer in French, English or German language.
Further information
If this course should be attended by less than three students, its lectures might turn into seminar classes with a range of papers to be discussed and corrected.
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